The Importance of Birth Narratives #shareyourstory #birthnarratives #empowerbirth #changethenarrative #changebirthculture #traumaticbirth #narrativemedicine #medicalhumanities Survive and Thrive

Check out new publication by our colleague Atėnė Mendelytė from Vilnius University VU FLF : mothernet.eu/publications/t…. More on our research: mothernet.eu/research/ @UU_University Mothernet Uppsala Maynooth University MU Motherhood Project European Commission European Research Executive Agency #motherhood #research #HorizonEU

Wonderful MU Motherhood Project members Mercedes Carbayo and Marian Crowley-Henry are part of the new cohort of @Campus_Engage #EngagedResearch trainers. Their skills will be especially useful for our Horizon 2020-funded @Mother_Net #research network! European Research Executive Agency #motherhood

A Pew Research Center study has found that parenthood benefits fathers’ salaries drastically, while penalizing mothers. More in the latest Keeping Score: msmagazine.com/2023/03/15/fem…

Today is #MothersDay in Ireland, and this poem by Irish poet Stephen James Smith Stephen James Smith is one of our favourite tributes to all Irish mammies! youtu.be/GTexZXtm2k8 #motherhood #mothers

Check out a new open-access book ‘Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing’ with contributions by several MotherNet colleagues: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #motherhood #research #HorizonEU Vilnius University Maynooth University @UU_University European Commission European Research Executive Agency

Lovely book launch. A go to collection on representations of motherhood in contemporary fiction and the latest conceptualisations of motherhood. MU Motherhood Project Mothernet Uppsala #HorizonEU @UU_University

This is a fascinating piece on why Italy is experiencing such a demographic crisis and how the patriarchal pro-natalism of the current far right government is so ineffective #motherhood #research #HorizonEU ft.com/content/44ccfd…

We're delighted to be able to welcome Dr Fulya Tepe to Maynooth University later this year on a Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute Visiting Fellowship! We look forward to hearing more about her research on monstrous #mothers in the Turkish press!

'The talent and expertise lost through the Irish marriage ban is staggering to contemplate'. Analysis by Dr. Jennifer Redmond Maynooth University Judith Harford University College Dublin & Dr Deirdre Foley UCC Ireland We are now Research Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

We need to break the long tradition of romanticising #motherhood and acknowledge #ambivalent #maternal feelings, writes Dr Rachel Williamson: thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/3500…

"Mothers belong to husbands and children, and when they seek their own respite or pleasure it’s understood as narcissistic, selfish or immoral." Thought-provoking essay by @AmandaMontei in the The New York Times. We can't wait to read her book! nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opi…

Call for Papers #cfp for the @Mother_Net Final #Conference on Thinking Through #Motherhood: Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time, Vilnius University, Lithuania, 23-25 January 2024. mothernet.eu/final-conferen…

There's still time to submit for the MotherNet final conference in the lovely city of Vilnius in January 2024, thinking about applying? Click on the link to learn more mothernet.eu/final-conferen… MU Motherhood Project

Join us on for the launch of "Washing Soot off Stained Glass", an #exhibition by #artist Sarah Strong to mark the centenary of her mother, #poet Eithne Strong. 23 Nov @ 12.30pm, Room 1.37 in Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute Maynooth University @Mother_Net eventbrite.ie/e/exhibition-l… #motherhood #irishliterature

Have you ever wondered how and what medical doctors in Ireland and Scotland learnt in premodern times? Deborah Hayden is finding out! You can read more here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie #medical #humanities We are now Research Ireland IrishResearchCouncil

We're delighted to welcome Prof. Eglė Kačkutė of Vilnius University Vilnius University as Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute Visiting Fellow Maynooth University this month and to learn more about her #research on #migrant #mothers' subjectivities!

We need safe staffing right across the public health service - our members know it and the public know it. It’s time for the HSE and government to take action and remove their staffing caps across hospitals and community care settings.